Growing cells in the laboratory is an art that humans have mastered decades ago. Recreating entire three-dimensional tissues is much more challenging. Researchers are developing a new hydrogel-based ...

The immune system must be able to rapidly target invaders such as viruses while avoiding innocuous stimuli, or allergies may develop.

Harvard no longer has a primate research center. But in 2009, Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering opened to focus on studying human disease using human cells and tissues.

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section of a mammalian brain. This feat, part of the MICrONS Project, rivals the ...

Cancer drugs that inhibit CDK7 rapidly shut down pathways responsible for cell proliferation within minutes. For organs to ...

What’s it like to try to keep a federally funded research lab afloat when your institution has seemingly been singled out by the government as Public Enemy No. 1?

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have found that the birth of new brain cells in adults plays a key role in verbal ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

The newly appointed director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, could bring an end to one of the ...

In a major step forward for cancer treatment, researchers have developed a new type of “smart” chemical that attacks ...

Once thought improbable, in vitro human models are demonstrating technological prowess in a growing range of applications.